SFSU History Faculty

Fall 2010 Faculty Contact Information
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History Majors should meet with a designated (*) professor for advising.

	Arturo Arrieta, lecturer at SFSU since 2005 Office: SCI 272 Office hours: W 9 - 10 & F 1 - 2 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: aarrieta@sfsu.edu	World History US History

	Maziar Behrooz, Associate Professor At SFSU since 1995 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 Office: SCI 223 Office hours: MWF 11:15 - 12 or by appointment Phone: (415) 338-1776 e-mail: mroozbeh@sfsu.edu Web: bss.sfsu.edu/behrooz	*Advisor, Middle East Middle East Modern Period Iran-Iraq Social History Intellectual History

	Dana Bernstein, Lecturer Office: SCI 222 Office hours: MW 1 - 2 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail:	Lecturer

	Bill Bonds, Lecturer, Emeritus Appointed 1965. Emeritus since 2001 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968 Office: SCI 227 Office hours: T 2 - 3 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: bonds@sfsu.edu	Medieval Europe, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History .

	Deborah Brown, Lecturer Office: SCI 267 Office hours: MW 1 - 2 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail:

	Chris Chekuri, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2004 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison Office: SCI 222 Office hours: on leave Fall 2010, contact by e-mail Phone: e-mail: cchekuri@sfsu.edu	*Advisor South Asia

	Robert W. Cherny, Professor of History At SFSU since 1971 Ph.D., Columbia University Office: SCI 223 Office hours: TTH 330 - 5; 530 - 630 & TH 10 - 11 Phone: (415) 338-7542 e-mail: cherny@sfsu.edu Web: bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/	*Advisor U.S., especially 1865-1941 Politics Labor The West, especially California


	Sarah Curtis, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2003 Ph.D., Indiana University Office: SCI 267 Office hours: T/Th 2:30 - 3:30, and by appointment e-mail: scurtis@sfsu.edu web: bss.sfsu.edu/scurtis	Advisor Director: European Studies Minor Nineteenth-Century Europe European Women France Social History Cultural and Intellectual History


	Anthony D'Agostino, Professor At SFSU since 1969 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1971 Office: SCI 267A Office hours: TTH 1 - 2 dagostin@sfsu.edu Web:	*Advisor Soviet Union Modern Russsia European International/Intellectual

	Philip Dreyfus, Associate Professor At SFSU since 1984 Ph.D., City University of New York, 1993 Office: SCI 222 Office hours: TTH 1 - 2 & TH 330 - 430 e-mail: pdreyfus@sfsu.edu web: bss.sfsu.edu/dreyfus	*Advisor Western U.S. California and Environmental History Labor

	Jessica Elkind, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2008 Ph.D., UCLA, 2005 Office: SCI 272 Office hours: on leave Fall 2010, contact by e-mail Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: jelkind@sfsu.edu Web	Advisor *Graduate Advisor American Foreign Relations Southeast Asia

	George Germany, Lecturer At SFSU since 1975 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1972. Office: SCI 265 Office hours: MWF 2 - 3, & By appt. Phone: (415) 338-1135 e-mail:

	Trevor Getz, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., University of London, 2000 Office: SCI 220, Office hours: Th 2-4, and by appointment Phone: (415) 338-7561 e-mail: tgetz@sfsu.edu Web	*Advisor Africa

	Richard Hoffman, Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1972 Office: SCI 227 Office hours: MWF 830 - 9:00; 10 - 11 & 12 - 1 Phone: (415) 338-2697 e-mail: rhoffman@sfsu.edu	Advisor Social Science Subject Matter Competence Advisor* Ancient Greek History Ancient Roman History Ancient Egypt Mediteranean Cultural History

	Pi-ching Hsu, Professor At SFSU since 1994 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994 Office: SCI 265A Office hours: MWF 2:10 - 3:00 Phone: (415) 338-7536 e-mail: pchsu@sfsu.edu bss.sfsu.edu/pacificasianstudies/	Advisor Director, Pacific Asian Studies Minor China Taiwan

	Sherry Katz, Lecturer At SFSU since 1997 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991 Office: SCI 265 Office hours: T/Th 12:30 - 1:30 and by appointment Phone: (415) 338-1135 e-mail: sjkatz@sfsu.edu Web	U.S. 20th Century Gender California History of Childhood

	Sherry Keith, Associate Professor of Social Science At SFSU since 1989 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1974 (Social Science Subject Matter Competence Advisor) Office: SCI 227/BH 255. Office hours: W 12 - 230 & F 11:30 - 12:30 and by appt. Phone: (415) 338-1669 e-mail: skeith@sfsu.edu	*Social Science Subject Matter Competence Advisor

	Aimee Klask, Lecturer Office: SCI 265 Office hours: M 2 - 3 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail:


	Steve Leikin, Lecturer At SFSU since 1998 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1992 Office: SCI 221 Office hours: M 6 - 6:50 & WF 10 - 11, and by appt. Phone: (415) 405-0350 e-mail: sleikin@sfsu.edu Web	U.S. Social Political Labor

	Laura Lisy-Wagner, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2006 Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005 Office: SCI 265A Office hours: TH 2 - 4 Phone: (415)338-1243 e-mail: lalisy@sfsu.edu Web: http://bss.sfsu.edu/lwagner/	*Advisor Early Modern Europe Central and Eastern Europe Reformation Gender and Sexuality

	Kyle Livie, Lecturer Office: SCI 267B Office hours: W 7 - 9 pm Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: Web:	U.S.


	Paul Longmore, Professor 1947 - 2010 Prof. Longmore passed away unexpectedly on August 9, 2010 American Historical Society Obituary SFSU History Department Obituary At SFSU 1992 - 2010 Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1984 Curriculum Vita Web: Institute on Disability Website-longmore	U.S. Colonial Early National History of Disabilities Recipient of 2005 Henry B. Betts Award There will be a campus celebration of Paul’s life and accomplishments on Saturday, October 23, in the Seven Hills Conference Center, beginning at 2:00. Everyone is warmly invited

	Barbara Loomis, Associate Professor At SFSU since 1989 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988 Office: SCI 276 Office hours: M 10 - 12 & 1 - 4; T 1-4 and Thu. 10 - 12; F by appt. Phone: (415) 338-7537 e-mail: barbaral@sfsu.edu	Department Chair *Advisor U.S. History 19th Century Women Religion

	Dawn Mabalon, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2004 Ph.D., Stanford, 2003 Office: SCI 267B Office hours: T 2 - 4 and by appointment Phone: (415) 338-7540 e-mail: dmabalon@sfsu.edu Web userwww.sfsu.edu/~dmabalon/	*Advisor US 20th Century Race and Ethnicity Women Immigration Asian Americans Filipina/o Americans Philippines

	Ben Martin, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2008 Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006 Office: SCI 224 Office hours: on leave Fall 2010, contact by e-mail Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: bgmartin@sfsu.edu web: http://bss.sfsu.edu/bmartin	*Advisor Twentieth-Century Europe Cultural and Intellectual History Italy Germany History of Genocide


	Abdiel Oñate, Professor At SFSU since 1988 Ph.D., El Colegio de Mexico Office: SCI 220 Office hours: on leave Fall 2010, contact by e-mail Phone: (415) 338-6177 e-mail: onate@sfsu.edu Web userwww.sfsu.edu/~onate/	*Advisor Director, Latin American Studies Minor (Social Science Subject Matter Competence Advisor) Latin America Mexico

	Molly Oshatz, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2010 Office: SCI 224 Office hours: W 1 - 3 Phone: (415) 338-6184 e-mail: moshatz@sfsu.edu web:	*Advisor Intellectual History



	Julyana G. Peard, Professor At SFSU since 1991 Ph.D., Columbia University, 1990 Office: SCI 272 Office hours: T/Th 11:30 - 12:30 & TH 3 - 4, and by appointment Phone:(415) 338-1280 e-mail: jpeard@sfsu.edu Web	*Advisor Latin America Brazil Argentina

	Charles Postel, Associate Professor at SFSU since 2009 Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 2002 office: SCI 224 Office hours: W 4 - 5; F 11 - 12, and by appointment Phone: 338-1119 e-mail: Postel@sfsu.edu	*Advisor US History Politics Reform movements Populism Gilded Age & Progressive Era

	Jarbel Rodriguez, Associate Professor (Graduate Coordinator) At SFSU since 2001 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2001 Office: SCI 267A Office hours: M 12 - 1 & 3 - 5 Phone:(415) 338-1560 e-mail: jarbel@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/jrodriguez/	Advisor Graduate Advisor Medieval Renaissance

	Mark Sigmon, Lecturer At SFSU since 1995 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995 Office: SCI 221 Office hours: MWF 1 - 2, and W 3 - 4 Phone: (415) 338-7563 e-mail: msigmon@sfsu.edu	American West Borderlands Native American History

	Tina Stevens, Lecturer at SFSU since 1999 Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1997 Office: SCI 227 Office hours: TH 12:15 - 1:15 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: mstevens@sfsu.edu Web	Rise of Bioethics and Biotechnology Recent U.S.

	Anthony Swanson, Lecturer Office: SCI 220 Office hours: F 10 - 11 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: swansona@sfsu.edu Web


	Christopher Waldrep, Professor Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in History At SFSU since 2000 Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1990 Office: SCI 225 Office hours: T 2 - 4, and by appointment. Phone: (415) 338-2982 e-mail: cwaldrep@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/waldrep	*Advisor U.S. Constitutional and Legal History Jamie and Phillip Pasker Chair in History

	Megan Williams, Assistant Professor At SFSU since 2006 Ph.D, Princeton, 2002 Office: SCI 267B Office hours: T 4 - 5 Phone: (415)338-1317 e-mail: mhw@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/mwilliams	*Advisor Late Roman Empire History of Christianity Intellectual history

	Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., Harvard Office: SCI 267 Office hours: on leave Fall 2010, contact by e-mail Phone: (415) 338-7544 e-mail: shepwolf@sfsu.edu Web bss.sfsu.edu/shepwolf	*Advisor American Revolution Emancipation Slavery Political Ideology Free Blacks

	Sarah Zimmerman, Lecturer Office: SCI 220 Office hours: T 230 - 430 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: sarahzim@sfsu.edu Web

Office Staff
	Deborah Kearns Academic Office Coordinator M.A., Humanities, San Francisco State University, 2002 Office: SCI 275 Office hours: M-TH 9-12, 1:15-4:30; not in the office on Fridays and by Appointment Phone: (415) 338-1803 e-mail: dkearns@sfsu.edu	Class Scheduling Budget Payroll

	Smithy Blackwell Administrative Assistant B.S. Troy University Office: SCI 276 Office hours: M-F 9-12, 1:15-4:30 Phone: (415) 338-6463 e-mail: history@sfsu.edu	Front Office Manager Web Design

	Kelly Daniells Student Assistant San Francisco State University Office: SCI 276 Office hours: M - F 9 - 12 Phone: (415) 338-1604 e-mail: history@sfsu.edu Web	Front Office Reception


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